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Cuckoo

Directed by Tilman Singer
2024
Germany, USA
102 minutes
Unclassified 18+
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Hunter Schafer (Euphoria) stars in a fantastically unrestrained tale of very strange goings-on at a holiday resort in the Bavarian Alps. Berlinale, SXSW 2024.

Troubled teen Gretchen (Schafer) is forced to relocate to Bavaria with her distant dad and his new family. Wanting only to return to America, she begins work at a resort owned by alarmingly eccentric entrepreneur Herr König (Dan Stevens, priceless). After hearing screams in the dead of night and encountering time-warps, Gretchen suspects this weirdly retro-modern place is catering to much more than the tourist trade. Throbbing with sinister secrets and clever twists, Cuckoo is a wildly entertaining exercise in unrestrained imagination from Tilman Singer (Luz, 2018). Schafer is dynamite as the heroine whose stint in this creepy paradise delivers lashings of lurid horror and packs a powerful emotional punch.

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Schafer delivers a stellar turn, and her combination of androgynous frailty and tough-girl attitude works terrifically well
Wendy Ide, Screen International
Part of the massive entertainment value of [Singer's] wild and unwieldy second feature is that it is refreshingly free of any kind of manifesto
Jessica Kiang, Variety
Kind of like The Stepford Wives meets Rosemary’s Baby, with side orders of Cronenberg, J-Horror and Lynch
David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter

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Tickets

Thu 6 Jun
8:45pm
Dendy Newtown - Cinema 1
Assisted Listening
Wheelchair
Past Event Cancel
Fri 7 Jun
9pm
Palace Central Cinemas - Cinema 1
Assisted Listening
Wheelchair
Past Event Cancel
Wed 12 Jun
8:35pm
Ritz Randwick - Cinema 5
Assisted Listening
Wheelchair
Subtitled
Past Event Cancel
Sat 15 Jun
8:30pm
Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 5
Assisted Listening
Wheelchair
Subtitled
Past Event Cancel
Program Strand
Freak Me Out
Year
2024
Classification
Unclassified 18+
Language
In English, French and German with English subtitles
Premiere Status
Australian Premiere
Director
Tilman Singer
Producer
Markus Halberschmidt, Josh Rosenbaum, Maria Tsigka, Ken Kao, Thor Bradwell
Cast
Hunter Schafer, Dan Stevens, Jessica Henwick
Screenwriter
Tilman Singer
Cinematographer
Paul Faltz
Editor
Terel Gibson, Philipp Thomas
Premiere
Australian Premiere
Genre
Horror, Off-Beat
Company Credits
Australian Distributor: Park Circus
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